Charity fundraising ideas with a small network

do you know any gamers ? ( I admit I have VERY little idea of what they do) but we had a member of our small charity have a sponsored 24 hour gaming marathon and they raised over £800 - I think the people gaming just paid to enter - but if you have a facebook page ( which would be a great way to raise awareness for your brother) you could ask if there are any gamers willing to help. would any men you know be willing to have their back/chest waxed and be sponsored ? again Facebook is great for getting instant offers of sposorship etc. I will have a think and see if I can come up with any other ideas

Is your dad local to where you are? If so, you might be able to think about local events - for instance, whether there are any local fetes (schools / churches) which would let you raise money, perhaps by having a stall (you'd probably need to be a little bit creative about what you were selling or offering as they will probably have the most obvious ones like cakes and books for their own funds, but they might let you do a 'guess the weight of the cake / number of buttons in the jar type thing.)

You could ask whether there are any AmDram groups which might allow you to sell drinks or sweets in the interval (but again, that may be a part of their own fundraising strategy)

On a practical level you might want to suggest to your brother that e make it clearer on his gofundme how much of the money donated will actually go to the charity - you mentioned that he needed £1500 to cove the 'entry fee and donation' - a lot of people don't want to contribute to things like enttry fees and want to know that all of the money they donate will go directly to the charity, so it might encourage more people to donate through that method if he makes clear either how much will go on entry fees, or alternately, if it is the case, that he is paying the entry fee from his own pocket and everything donated will go to the charity. This is not a criticism of him - it may be that the money is already all going to charity, but you can't tell that by looking at the funding page.

i think pat of the issue might be that you are looking to raise funds for your brother to do a marathon, rather than for the charity directly - I think this does mean that there are some possible funding routes that you can't access - f you were raising funds directly, you could enquire with local business and groups such as Scouts or Guides whether they would consider adopting the charity as 'charity of the year' , but they are going to want to put their own spin on it, which they can't do in the same way for something like a marathon, where the fundraising goes in his name.